Simone Weil created a memorable ceuvre remarkable for its lucid,
striking, and seemingly transparent prose. Aphoristic and
impersonal in tone, it is the instrument of a master stylist. The
first to recognize Weil's achievement as a writer, this book
situates her work within the French literary tradition, showing its
affinities with Pascal and Budelaire, and acknowledges its kinship
to the works of poets and writers of her generation, notably the
poets Rene Char and Marina Tsvetaeva. The parallel between Weil's
concept of decreation and the impersonality of the speaker in-her
prose is shown ultimately to be to her will to surpass the
boundaries of the written page in her drive to self-immolation.
Close reading of passages from her notebooks, several short texts,
and a proposal for front-line nurses addressed to the Free French
illustrates the forces and influences at work in her writing.
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